Conversion Chart

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Thu Oct 2 18:53:26 EDT 2014


I might be missing something but what's wrong with using the baseConvert
function?  It converts a number from any base to any base.

Pete
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:19 PM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:

> Here is another chart.
>
>
> Hex - Binary
> 0    0000
> 1    0001
> 2    0010
> 3    0011
> 4    0100
> 5    0101
> 6    0110
> 7    0111
> 8    1000
> 9    1001
> A    1010
> B    1011
> C    1100
> D    1101
> E    1110
> F    1111
>
>
> The binary code is eight chars long.  The Hex code
> is two chars long.  To convert from Binary to Hex you
> use this chart.
>
> Take a list of binary data and it will be a group of eight
> char sections.  You take the first eight chars and now
> you will be dealing with the first Hex char.  As I said
> before Hex is numbers 0 to 9 and letters  A to F and
> these letters can be upper or lower case but keep it
> consistent.
>
> Now that you have eight Binary digits that represent
> one Hex value you take the first four binary digits and
> convert them to the Hex value in the chart and then you
> take the second four Binary digits and convert them to
> the Hex value shown in the chart.  Now you have your
> two digit Hex value.
>
> John Balgenorth
>
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